Just to be clear (for the rest of the class), we didn't want to get to Australia to watch burning diesel engines.
Australia had/has a very stacked (downright aggressive) ratio of single females to single males and a national obsession with getting pie-eyed wasted.
While it was true that if Walt Disney wanted to build a theme park only for men, all he had to do was build a ticket booth in Subic Bay or Pattaya Beach, Anywhere, Australia was always the number one liberty port destination.